Sonic Free Riders

Sonic Free Riders is certainly a hit, with some of the best Sonic-themed racing action since the hedgehog grabbed his first hoverboard. The menu system is unnecessarily clunky and there is a bit of a learning curve to playing the game, but once you figure it all out, there is no end to the fun you and your family and friends will have playing this game.

Sonic is back and features high speed and a good ammount of unlockables. Unfortunately, the controls doesn't respond properly sometimes, conforming an experience less enjoyable than we would like.

An unimpressive game that lacks any real charm.

Until they manage to learn how (something other developers seemed to have understood rather quickly), SEGA isn't allowed to put another Kinect game on the market...but we all know that's not how it works, am I right?

The third chapter of the Sonic Riders series is an epic fail because of one of the worst control system in the entire Kinect line-up.

The good Kinect games can be really entertaining, the bad ones where the motion controls doesn't work like intended is horrible. Sonic Free Riders falls is a game in the later catergory, and is a completely broken game. Really. Avoid at any cost.

But all of the good in the world is a moot point if your game doesn't actually seem to work correctly, and that's definitely the case that I ran into here.

I seriously love Sonic Free Riders to the death. I didn't have a problem with the menus or the controls, the tracks are all fun to play on, the new style of game play is fresh, the graphics are amazing, and the music is as great as ever! Yeah, the story's a piece of s**t, but who plays a racing game for story? My favourite Sonic game.

OK, for not having the best motion controls for kinect V.1 compared to first party kinect games, this should have had a simpler use of the awful controls, it should be fixed next time!

It's not necessarily bad. However, it's very tedious to get some levels done (especially Knuckles levels, ugh), and the gameplay can be quite punishing... On your back. Yeah... The Kinect movement detection is not the best. The levels look great and are well designed though, very interesting ideas in them, and fun power ups.

Unfortunately, it’s impossible to overlook this game’s flaws due to the incredibly unresponsive motion controls, which is enough to declare Sonic Free Riders as possibly the worst Sonic game to ever exist.

I feel like the biggest flaw of this game is the fact that you have to use your body, and the fact that it’s so hard to control. It’s better off a controller game. Although, the characters are fun and the animations are swell.